A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Have, _v. a._ pres. ‘abbe.’ RG. 423; 2 s. pres. ‘havest.’ O. and N. 1148;
3 s. pres. ‘ath.’ RG. 368; pl. ‘habbeth.’ RG. 9; pret. ‘adde.’ RG. 368
---- _vb. aux._ Rel. S. ii. 13, 31
Haven, _sb._ RG. 423; [have]. RG. 134
Haver, _adj._ == clever, Pol. S. 155. ON. hagr
Haw, _sb._ == the fruit of the hawthorn. RG. 524. AS. hagan
Hawe, _sb._ == care, attention. Marg. 18
Hawk, _sb._ RG. 275
Hay, _sb._ RG. 406
Hayward, _sb._ == ‘a person who guarded the corn and farmyard in the night
time.’ Halliwell. Wright’s L. P. p. 110. Pol. S. p. 149
Hazardry, _sb._ RG. 195
Haȝe, _sb._ == courtyard of a house. O. and N. 585; [hahe]. O. and N. 1610
---- == wall of a yard. Ps. lxxxviii. 41. Fr. haie. AS. haga
Haȝt, _adj._ == haughty, _q. v._
HE, _nom._ RG. 367, 443; gen. ‘his.’ RG. 367; dat. ‘him.’ RG. 367; acc.
‘him.’ RG. 367; ‘hine.’ O. and N. 1372
Heo, Ho, == she. RG. 13; [ȝoe]. RG. 436; [he]. Wright’s L. P. pp. 27,
95; gen. ‘hire.’ RG. 13; dat. ‘hire.’ RG. 13; acc. ‘here.’ RG. 12;
‘hire.’ Marg. 44; ‘hine.’ Ps. lxviii. 37
Hit, == it. [he]. O. and N. 21; [het]. O. and N. 21
---- _pl. nom._ ‘hii.’ RG. 367; ‘ho.’ Marg. 61; ‘he.’ HD. 152; ‘heo.’
RG. 4, 45; ‘hue.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 105; ‘thei.’ 494 B.; ‘thai.’ Ps.
xxi. 5
---- _gen._ ‘here.’ O. and N. 936; ‘her.’ RG. 369; ‘hor.’ RG. 467;
‘heore.’ Rel. S. iv. 18; ‘thare.’ O. and N. 140; ‘hore.’ O. and N.
280; ‘huere.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 41; ‘tho.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 29, with
‘of’
Hit, _dat._ ‘heom.’ O. and N. 1380; ‘hem.’ RG. 381
---- _acc._ ‘heom.’ O. and N. 1515; ‘hom.’ O. and N. 913; ‘hem.’ RG.
385
He, _adj._ == high. Fragm. Sci. 283
Head, _sb._ RG. 23, 402
Headlong, _adv._ [hedlyng]. Alys. 2261
Heal, _v. a._ RG. 151
Healing, _sb._ == health. Ps. lxvi. 3
Health, _sb._ [hele]. RG. 151. Ps. xxi. 2
Healer, _sb._ Ps. xxiv. 5
Heap, _sb._ 443 β. Sermon, 34
Hear, _v. a._ [i-here]. O. and N. 544; [i-hure]. RG. 556; pret. ‘hurde.’
RG. 391; part. ‘y-herd.’ RG. 87
Hearing, _sb._ == rumour. Ps. cxi. 7
Hearken, _v. n._ RG. 1
---- _v. a._ == listen to. RG. 308
Heart, _sb._ HD. 479; [hurte]. 22 B.
Heartily, _adv._ RG. 1347. HD. 1347
Heartsblood, _sb._ HD. 1819
Heat, _sb._ 62 β
---- _v. n._ == become hot. pret. ‘hatte.’ K. Horn, 622
Heathen, _sb._ RG. 396
Heathenesse, _sb._ == heathens. RG. 480
---- == heathenism. RG. 529
Heave, _v. a._ [hebbe]. RG. 17. AS. hebban
Heaven, _sb._ RG. 405; [hoven]. O. and N. 860
Heavenriche, _sb._ == sky. Cok. 6
---- == heaven. M. Ode, st. 31
Heaviness, _sb._ Fragm. Sci. 110
Heavy, _adj._ Wright’s L. P. p. 102
---- _v. a._ == make heavy. Ps. xxxi. 4
Hechil, _sb._ == a hackle, for carding flax. Rel. Ant. ii. p. 176. Dut.
hekel
Hedge, _sb._ RG. 211. AS. hege
Hedy ? Wright’s L. P. p. 22. Probably a mistake for ‘hendy.’ Cf. Ib. p. 27
Heed, _sb._ Wright’s L. P. p. 112
---- _v. a._ HD. 2389
Heel, _sb._ HD. 898
Heelspor, _sb._ == footstep. Ps. xlviii. 6; lv. 7
Heifer, _sb._ Pol. S. 239
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